Charlton Athletic

Competition: Premiership

Venue: (H)
Result: Wait and see!
Score: Wait and see!
Attendance: TBA
Liverpool Scorers: Wait and see!
Opposition Scorers: Let’s hope no-one

Liverpool Line-Up:
Wait & see

Opposition Line-up:
Wait & see

Match Report:

I’ll write it when they’ve played the match

Fulham

Competition: Premiership

Venue: (A)
Result: Lost :down:
Score: 0-1
Attendance: 24,454
Liverpool Scorers: No-one :down:
Opposition Scorers: Dempsey (68)

Liverpool Line-Up:
Reina, Insua, Hyypia, Paletta, Arbeloa, Gonazalez, Alonso, Sissoko, Pennant, Bellamy, Fowler, El Zhar (sub), Finnan (sub), Hobbs (sub), Kewell (sub), Padelli (sub)

Opposition Line-up:
Niemi, Bocanegra, Christanval, Knight, Rosenior, Radzinski, Brown, Diop, Davies, McBride, Montella, Dempsey (sub), Helguson (sub), Lastuvka (sub), Routledge (sub), Volz (sub)

Match Report:

Rafa made nine changes today, but we still should have won.  It was really nice to see Harry Kewell playing, and to see El Zhar get on the pitch, too.  We shoudl have scored lots of goals.  Bellamy had three chances, Robbie could have scored twice, too, and Kewell could have got one.  The ball just wouldn’t go in. 

Fulham dodn’t look that good, but their goal was nice. 

Just Charlton to go, and then it’s ATHENS here we come

Portsmouth

Competition: Premiership

Venue: (A)
Result: lost :down:
Score: 1-2
Attendance: 20,201
Liverpool Scorers: Hyypia (58)
Opposition Scorers: Benjani (27), Kranjkar (32)

Liverpool Line-Up:
Dudek, Insua, Hyypia, Paletta, Arbeloa, Zenden, Alonso, Sissoko, Gonzalez, Belamy, Fowler, El Zhar (sub), Hobbs (sub), Kuyt (sub), Padelli (sub), Pennant (sub)

Opposition Line-up:
James, Traore, Primus, Stefanovic, Johnson, Taylor, Hughes, O’Neill, Lauren, Benjani, Kanu, Ashdown (sub), Davies (sub), Kranjkar (sub), Lua Lua (sub), Mvuemba (sub)

Match Report:

Portsmouth were 2-0 up at half time.  Rafa rested lots of players – Stevie, Jamie Carragher, Pepe and some others because of the match against Chelsea on Tuesday, but it didn’t really work today.  El Zhar played, which I liked because I’ve got his name on my shirt

Sami Hyppia scored a great goal in teh second half to make it 2-1, and El Zhar did a run down the wing and crossed it into the box, but Fowler couldn’t get to it.  That would have been 2-2.  Still, never mind.

Arsenal beat Fulham, too, which means we are only one point in front of them.  I don’t know what else happened because I only saw it on Match of the Day, and they didn’t show much

Wigan Athletic

Competition: Premiership

Venue: (H)
Result: Won
Score: 2-0
Attendance: 44,003
Liverpool Scorers: Kuyt (30, 68)
Opposition Scorers: No-one

Liverpool Line-Up:
Reina, Riise, Carragher, Hyypia, Arbeloa, Gonazalez, Alonso, Zenden, Pennant, Crouch, Kuyt, Agger (sub), Bellamy (sub), Dudek (sub), Gerrard (sub), Mascherano (sub)

Opposition Line-up:
Filan, Baines, De Zeeuw, Jackson, Taylor, Kilbane, Landzaat, Skoko, Boyce, Heskey, Scharner, Ashahowa (sub), Camara (sub), Folan (sub), Granqvist (sub), Pollitt (sub)

Match Report:

I went to this match with my dad.  It was ace.  I have been to three matches at Anfield and seen a win (Portsmouth) a lose (FA Youth Cup Final v Man U) and now a win YEEEEAY!

We sat in the Anfield Road End Lower, just 26 rows back from the pitch.  We had a brilliant view and even got to see a goal scored right in front of us!!  It was nice to see Bolo playing, but somehow the boys didn’t seem to have any ideas to create stuff in Midfield.  Rafa was resting Stevie to protect him for Wednesday night, but without him Liverpool just don’t seem to play as well.  But, they didn’t play badly, and when Kuyt scored an excellent header, the game changed and we opened up a bit more.

In the second half, we played much better.  Bellamy came on for Crouch and straight away we had pace up front and he made Dirk’s second with a brilliant run into the box.  When Rafa brought Stevie on there was real difference to our play. 

Stevie could have scored two absolute screamers, but his vision and Craigy pace meant that right until the final whistle it looked like we would score a third.  We had loads of chances and it was quite exciting to be sat behind the goal where we were having so many shots.  Stevie, Speedy, Dirky, Craigy, Xabi and John Arne all could have got on the score sheet.

It was quite funny when every time Stevie came to warm up the whole ground (well not the Wigan fans ) clapped and cheered.  He really is the fans favourite.  It was great, too, that everyone clapped and cheered Emile Heskey off the pitch when he got substituted by Paul Jewel – he’s an Anfield favourite, too, even though he doesn’t play for us anymore.

Middlesbrough

Competition: Premiership

Venue: (H)
Result: Won
Score: 2-0
Attendance: 41,458
Liverpool Scorers: Gerrard (58, 65)
Opposition Scorers: No-one

Liverpool Line-Up:
Reina, Riise, Agger, Carragher, Arbeloa, Zenden, Mascherano, Sissoko, Pennant, Crouch, Gerrard (c), Dudek (sub), Fowler (sub), Gonzalez (sub), Hyypia (sub), Kuyt (sub)

Opposition Line-up:
Schwarzer, Cattermole, Pogatetz, Woodgate, Taylor, Downing, Boateng, Rochemback, Morrison, Davies, Yakubu, Johnson (sub), Jones (sub), Dong Gook Lee (sub), Riggott (sub), Viduka (sub)

Match Report:

I watched the highlights to this on e-season, and it was a game of two halves.  The first half was awful, the second half was great.

In the first half, Rafa played Stevie up front with five in midfield.  We never looked like scoring and we didn’t seem to have any ideas.  After the Man City game, I was beginning to think we were losing the plot and weren’t going to score any more goals this season!

But in the second half he brought Durk on to go up front and moved Stevie into the middle and we looked good again.  Stevie was a different player and scored a great left-foot goal to change the whole game.  It seems to me that when Stevie plays in the middle he plays better, and when Stevie plays better, so does the rest of the team.  The second half was great.

We needed these three points, and we got them.  Now we just need three more to be sure of Champions League football next season.

Manchester City

Competition: Premiership

Venue: (A)
Result: Drew own:
Score: 0-0
Attendance: 45,883
Liverpool Scorers: No-one :down:
Opposition Scorers: No-one

Liverpool Line-Up:
Reina, Arbeloa, Agger, Carragher (c), Finnan, Riise, Alonso, Mascherano, Pennant, Gerrard, Kuyt, Crouch (sub), Dudek (sub), Gonzalez (sub), Hyypia, Zenden (sub)

Opposition Line-up:
Isaksson, Ball, Distin, Dunn, Johnson, Onuoha, Barton, Jihai, Beasley, Mpenza, Vassell, Corradi (sub), Ireleand (sub), Samaras (sub), Trabelsi (sub), Weaver (sub)

Match Report:

I didn’t see much of this match because they didn’t put much on Match of the Day and I didn’t get to watch it on my e-season ticket.  I did listen to it with my Dad on e-season, though, and it sounded like a terrible game.  I know Man City were at home, but we really need to be winning these games.